The History of Personality in the Workplace
For the better part of the 20th century, researchers have looked at the role that personality plays in job performance. For a very long time, findings were mixed and inconclusive. Because of this,...
View ArticlePersonality and Job Performance
Over the past couple of decades, personality has taken a larger role in applied research and employee selection. This optimism is mostly due to the creation of a unified model of personality- the Big...
View ArticleROI for Employee Selection Procedures
A recent study examined the utility of selection procedures for most white-collar jobs in the federal government. This study is set apart from standard utility analyses (where the value of a selection...
View ArticleOutcomes of Organization Development Interventions
A large applied research study sought to examine important organizational outcomes from various psychologically-based workplace interventions. In all, they examined the effects of eleven different...
View ArticleSocial Media as a Hiring Tool?
The first question is — Why use social media in selection decisions? It may be because most of us believe we are good judges of character: ’Of course I can get a sense of someone by browsing through...
View ArticleEffective Employee Selection Methods
Why would we ever want to use something like social media profiles to inform selection decisions when there are much much more accurate ways to evaluate applicant skills and fit? One reason, we...
View ArticleUnstructured Interviews
To follow up a previous blog on the most effective selection methods, we are also going to look at more common and universally ineffective approaches to hiring. Traditional, unstructured interviews...
View ArticleOn Graphology …
Just as it is important to learn about the selection methods that have been proven to be effective at identifying talent, it is also important to note those that do not predict performance or turnover....
View ArticlePersonality and Job Performance – A Review
Over the past couple of decades, personality has become a focal point in organizational research, leadership development and derailment, and particularly employee selection. This optimism is largely...
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